Happy Birthday

Being the Patriotic guy that I am, you would expect this to be a Independence Day write-up. And, under normal circumstances, it would be. However, today is not normal, by any stretch of the imagination.

This birthday is not a 230th birthday, but an original birthday.

At, 10:56 pm, July 3, 2006, my daughter, Ansley Savannah Hall, was born at Coliseum Hospital in Macon, GA. She weighed 6 lbs and 13 oz and was 19.5 inches long.

Too make a long story much shorter, Darling Bride's (now also known as #1 Mom) water broke at 9:00 am while she was at work on 3 July. There had been no contractions to speak of, so, the water breaking was kind of a surprise. We called the Dr and they said to go to the Hospital. We did and she was admitted around 10:00 am. They checked and she was dilated 1cm. They put her on, what the Doc called "Go-Go Juice," to bring on labor and get her dilated. After 11 1/2 hours of contractions, epidurals that wore off, and visits by all family members within a 450 mile radius, she had dilated all the way to 2cm. Quite a bit away from the 10cm needed to give birth. The doc decided it was time to do a c-section. She always knew this could be an option and was very willing to do it since it didn't look like she was going to dilate anytime soon. At 10:56 pm, Little Miss Ansley was born via c-section while I was seated by her mother's head in the operating room. Both Mother and Daughter are doing fine and expected to be released a day earlier than originally thought.

Happy Original Birthday, my sweet Daughter.